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Just wondering if anyone here plans on installing OS X 9. I have iOS7 installed and loving it, will look at OS X 10.9 tonight, looking at installing it onto a USB Drive, dont think its ready for main use.

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[quote name='virtorio' timestamp='1371083806' post='595755564']
If I didn't use my Mac for work I would. I can take or leave most of the new features, but tagging would be really useful for me, and I'm interested in the changes of how it handles memory.
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yea seen the tagging feature, dont think i would it much, but in a work place it would great!

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[quote name='cooky560' timestamp='1371121491' post='595756322']
I imagine [url="http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1012786-installing-clean-osx-lion-from-a-dvd-or-usb-stick/"]this[/url] still works
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It doesn't from what I've seen. Apple modified the installer.

2. Right click Installer.app file and click Show Package Contents, Open Contents folder, then look in SharedSupport folder. You will see InstallESD.dmg.
3. Mount InstallESD.dmg.
4. Copy the BaseSystem.dmg file out to somewhere convenient.
5. Do not mount BaseSystem.dmg. Just open Disk Utility and restore it to a flash drive.
6. When that's done look in the flash drive you just restored to and go to /System/Installation/. In that folder you will see a white icon with an arrow called Packages. That's a broken alias. Delete it.
7. Now go back to your InstallESD.dmg file. Inside is a folder weighing in at about 4.5GB called Packages. Copy that folder onto the flash drive in place of where the alias was.
8. Go ahead and hide the hidden folders again by going back to the Terminal and typing:

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Installed it on my iMac & MacBook Pro, and it runs great. I really love the improvements they have made for multiple displays with Mission Control! Super!!

iOS 7 I'm not so fond of... the icons look dreadful and since I'm running it on a iPhone 4, I have no transparencies so it looks quite dreadful. Hopefully I'll have an iPhone 5 soon, and I'm sure it'll look & run a lot better on that device. Hopefully they will sort our the inconsistencies that are still in the current beta...

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[quote name='Gifford Briggs' timestamp='1371138985' post='595757018']
does the install of 10.9 function as a clean install - or if you install will it function as update and leave all of your settings and documents in place?
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Installs as an update.

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In response to my earlier hopes about a performance increase, I can now say that the difference is night and day. For once, they really did deliver. It can crash 20 times per day and I'll still save time compared to running Mountain Lion.

Never thought I'd say this about an operating system, but I absolutely love this. Tabs, improvements to memory architecture and a vastly improved Safari (no longer destroys the HDD)